Have we lost the capacity to change our minds? Is that at the core of it? Have we become so incurious, so wedded to our own internal suite of conviction and prejudice that we not only close our ears to any alternative, but rail angrily at a world in which such divergent views dare to exist? Here we go again: Anthony Albanese has announced an inquiry into what went right and what went wrong in our response to the Covid-19 pandemic.